List of events
Events from the year 1848 in the United States.
Incumbents
Federal Government
Governors and Lieutenant Governors
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Governors
- Governor of Alabama: Reuben Chapman (Democratic)
- Governor of Arkansas: Thomas Stevenson Drew (Democratic)
- Governor of Connecticut: Clark Bissell (Whig)
- Governor of Delaware: William Tharp (Democratic)
- Governor of Florida: William Dunn Moseley (Democratic)
- Governor of Georgia: George W. Towns (Democratic)
- Governor of Illinois: Augustus C. French (Democratic)
- Governor of Indiana: James Whitcomb (Democratic) (until December 26), Paris C. Dunning (Democratic) (starting December 26)
- Governor of Iowa: Ansel Briggs (Democratic)
- Governor of Kentucky: William Owsley (Whig) (until September 6), John J. Crittenden (Whig) (starting September 6)
- Governor of Louisiana: Isaac Johnson (Democratic)
- Governor of Maine: John W. Dana (Democratic)
- Governor of Maryland: Thomas Pratt (Democratic) (until January 3), Philip F. Thomas (Democratic) (starting January 3)
- Governor of Massachusetts: George N. Briggs (Democratic)
- Governor of Michigan: William L. Greenly (Democratic) (until January 3), Epaphroditus Ransom (Democratic) (starting January 3)
- Governor of Mississippi: Albert G. Brown (Democratic) (until January 10), Joseph W. Matthews (Democratic) (starting January 10)
- Governor of Missouri: John C. Edwards (Democratic) (until November 20), Austin Augustus King (Democratic) (starting November 20)
- Governor of New Hampshire: Jared W. Williams (Democratic)
- Governor of New Jersey: Charles C. Stratton (Whig) (until January 18), Daniel Haines (Democratic) (starting January 18)
- Governor of New York: John Young (Whig) (until end of December 31)
- Governor of North Carolina: William Alexander Graham (Whig)
- Governor of Ohio: William Bebb (Whig)
- Governor of Pennsylvania:
- Governor of Rhode Island: Elisha Harris (Law and Order)
- Governor of South Carolina: David Johnson (Democratic) (until December 12), Whitemarsh B. Seabrook (Democratic) (starting December 12)
- Governor of Tennessee: Neill S. Brown (Whig)
- Governor of Texas: George T. Wood (Democratic)
- Governor of Vermont: Horace Eaton (Whig) (until October), Carlos Coolidge (Whig) (starting October)
- Governor of Virginia: William Smith (Democratic)
- Governor of Wisconsin: vacant (until June 7), Nelson Dewey (Democratic) (starting June 7)
Lieutenant Governors
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Events
January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
No fixed date
Ongoing
Births
- January 13 – Lilla Cabot Perry, painter (died 1933)
- February 20 – E. H. Harriman, railroad executive (died 1909)
- February 22 – Emily McGary Selinger, painter, author and educator (died 1927)
- March 8 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson, inventor (died 1919)
- March 19 – Wyatt Earp, lawman and gunfighter (died 1929)
- March 26 – Edward O. Wolcott, U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1889 to 1901 (died 1905)
- May 10 – Lafayette Young, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1910 to 1911 (died 1926)
- June 15 – Sol Smith Russell, comedian (died 1902)
- July 22 – Winfield Scott Stratton, miner (died 1902)
- August 24 – Kate Claxton, actress (died 1924)
- September 4 – Lewis Howard Latimer, African American inventor (died 1928)
- September 29 – Caroline Yale, educator (died 1933)
- October 6 – Webb C. Ball, jeweler and watchmaker from Fredericktown, Ohio (died 1922)
- October 15 – Harmon Northrop Morse, chemist (died 1920)
- November 1 – Caroline Still Anderson, African American physician, educator and activist (died 1919)
- November 2 – Stephen Mallory II, U.S. Senator from Florida from 1897 to 1907 (died 1907)
- November 7 – B. B. Comer, 33rd Governor of Alabama, U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1920 (died 1927)
- November 20 – James M. Spangler, inventor (died 1915)
- November 27 – Henry A. Rowland, physicist (died 1901)
Deaths
- February 11 – Thomas Cole, landscape painter (born 1801 in the United Kingdom)
- February 23 – John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829 (born 1767)
- March 29 – John Jacob Astor, businessman (born 1763)
- April 29 – Chester Ashley, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1844 to 1848 (born 1790)
- May 18 – William Leidesdorff, businessman (born 1810)
- June 26 – Stevenson Archer, U.S. Congressman from Maryland from 1819 to 1821 (born 1786)
- July 20 – Francis R. Shunk, politician (born 1788)
- August 15 – Timothy Olmstead, composer, fifer in the American Revolutionary War (born 1759)
- August 30 – Simon Willard, horologist (born 1753)
- October 25 – Dixon Hall Lewis, U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1844 to 1848 (born 1802)
- December 31 – Ambrose Hundley Sevier, U.S. Senator from Arkansas from 1836 to 1848 (born 1801)
See also
Further reading
- The Emigrant's Hand-book, or, A directory and guide for persons emigrating to the United States of America; also, a concise description of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri and Iowa, and the western territories, and including a statement of the modes and expenses of travelling from New York to the interior, New York: J.H. Colton, 1848, OCLC 2604051, OL 7235459M